Thematic Index of Classics in JStor

Article Themes

This page lists the automatically detected themes present in this article. The words shown for each theme reflect the overall content of the theme, and may not appear in this particular article.

For each theme, you can also find other articles from the same year.

The work presented here was developed by David Mimno under the Cybereditions Project, an effort led by the Perseus Project at Tufts University and funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Socrates the Beautiful: Role Reversal and Midwifery in Plato's Symposium

Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III

Transactions of the American Philological Association. (2000) pp. 261-285

Full text at JStor

[1780 words] eros, love, beauty, lover, symposium, beautiful, phaedrus, plato, socrates, alcibiades, erotic, beloved, aphrodite, desire, lysis, diotima, agathon, speech, loved, sokrates, homosexual, dover, homosexuality, lovers, pederasty, eryximachus, sexual, loving, friendship, loves

[416 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[407 words] socrates, plato, protagoras, knowledge, dialogue, justice, meno, gorgias, socratic, virtue, true, apology, euthyphro, himself, republic, thrasymachus, wisdom, things, callicles, truth, dialogues, sophists, crito, definition, vlastos, claim, irony, laws, xenophon, hippias

[153 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[142 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[124 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[116 words] kcai, tcov, icai, passage, kata, kati, kaci, icat, kcti, kait, nepi, kcat, oiov, tflv, epyov, pipilo, ckai, touto, xprjv, xpctv, xprv, otov, tiva, touq, xpcv, kcli, eoti, votto, iepov, tilv

[112 words] passage, kata, tovs, rpos, kara, trov, rovs, kalt, avrov, rapa, katl, tovto, repl, tols, words, aaaa, evov, passages, kacl, follows, evos, otov, rots, avtov, kcal, rept, elval, tovtov, rtov, a7ro

[91 words] berkeley, trans, essays, leiden, commentary, los_angeles, ithaca, mass, baltimore, early, politics, ancient_greece, myth, tapa, tradition, clarendon_press, amsterdam, introduction, vols, phoenix, greece, diss, ann_arbor, stuttgart, origins, reading, arethusa, review, routledge, rhetoric

[81 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[80 words] plato, republic, dialogues, socrates, platonic, laws, phaedo, dialogue, timaeus, ideas, phaedrus, parmenides, sophist, aristotle, taylor, philosophy, philebus, philosophical, theaetetus, cratylus, platon, cornford, burnet, doctrine, gorgias, dialectic, critias, method, symposium, passage

[69 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[57 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[54 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[50 words] aristotle, things, forms, plato, thing, sense, knowledge, objects, perception, something, object, matter, substance, sensible, distinction, true, senses, kind, mind, passage, equal, particulars, socrates, individual, definition, exist, unity, parmenides, species, thinking

[47 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[42 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[38 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[38 words] women, female, male, woman, gender, feminine, masculine, sexual, males, amazons, females, feminist, masculinity, inlaw, sexuality, skinner, desire, gendered, slides, thesmophoria, bottiger, feminism, oikos, mcclure, cross-dressing, richlin, irigaray, greene, kinsman, men_and_women

[35 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[23 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[19 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[18 words] towns, taxation, town, andreia, assessment, commodity, palace, e-sa-re-wi-ja, heyne, mazon, ti-mi-to-a-ke-e, e-ra-te-re-we, subgroup, a-te-re-wi-ja, choros, karika, ra-wa-ra-ta2, assessed, ro-u-so, giseke, murray, pe-to-no, sa-ma-ra, a-ke-re-wa, tax-contributor, taxed, me-ta-pa, tax-contributors, andreios, ka-ra-do-ro

[17 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[17 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[16 words] soul, body, plotinus, plato, matter, intellect, souls, timaeus, universe, evil, divine, doctrine, things, intelligible, principle, bodies, cosmos, power, proclus, demiurge, cause, passage, forms, platonic, nous, sense, idea, rational, myth, immortal

[16 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[13 words] hair, dress, worn, weaving, clothing, garment, purple, cloth, costume, wear, wearing, garments, loom, wool, women, clothes, cloak, textiles, toga, shoes, wore, linen, textile, woven, warp, tunic, robe, dressed, spinning, wild

[13 words] achilles, iliad, hector, agamemnon, homer, troy, ajax, odysseus, patroclus, priam, homeric, diomedes, trojans, greeks, nestor, battle, hero, trojan, heroes, thetis, poet, menelaus, zeus, achilleus, epic, warrior, achaeans, heroic, fight, hektor

[12 words] statue, statues, marble, athena, athens, relief, bronze, parthenon, reliefs, base, sculptures, frieze, archaic, olympia, richter, sculptor, pediment, statuette, sculptors, fifth_century, apollo, attic, works, aphrodite, hellenistic, fourth_century, nike, hermes, torso, ridgway

[11 words] gods, zeus, divine, hesiod, prometheus, earth, hera, apollo, power, justice, prayer, mortal, hermes, athena, mortals, theogony, heaven, muses, goddess, myth, poseidon, poet, olympus, aphrodite, homer, fate, birth, divinity, dike, passage

[10 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[9 words] scene, seated, relief, scenes, woman, holding, standing, shield, behind, holds, vase, stands, front, hands, female, representations, representation, spear, youth, wears, composition, male, painting, warrior, wearing, altar, reliefs, goddess, dionysos, frieze

[9 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[8 words] aristophanes, comedy, comic, play, chorus, plays, poet, frogs, actors, clouds, euripides, stage, birds, audience, wasps, tragedy, knights, athenian, actor, tragic, acharnians, peace, dramatic, athens, dionysus, cratinus, poets, scene, lysistrata, theatre

[8 words] dead, orpheus, hades, underworld, admetus, alcestis, heracles, dreams, souls, dream, eurydice, sleep, tartarus, elysium, living, charon, earth, insomnia, protesilaus, lament, persephone, journey, orphic, afterlife, pheres, apollo, cerberus, thanatos, gates, pluto

[7 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[7 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[7 words] a7ro, kata, icat, rapa, rpos, ical, kcal, wpos, wvos, v7re, column, orib, trov, a7roxxo, atea, evov, otos, rozs, ptov, rpls, tovs

[7 words] brun, bent, mein, herm, reis, bgk2, fich, herw, tryphon, dobr, wila, elms, dind2, r2iunt, burg, apprentice, iunt, salmo, voss, lent, pors, kust, salmon, trout, beer, coul, seal, valck, bach, koen

[6 words] money, property, paid, payment, amount, price, talents, land, sale, value, financial, cost, received, wealth, gold, private, treasury, public, taxes, drachmas, sold, denarii, payments, income, sesterces, silver, debt, funds, contract, loan

[5 words] trade, economic, population, local, production, city, italy, empire, cities, urban, commercial, period, early, economy, market, rural, goods, towns, roman_empire, wealth, products, region, commerce, slaves, industry, grain, decline, italian, distribution, agricultural

[5 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[5 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[5 words] euripides, play, sophocles, aeschylus, plays, tragedy, chorus, drama, dramatic, tragic, ajax, prometheus, greek_tragedy, scene, stage, audience, euripidean, action, antigone, lines, tragedies, medea, oedipus, actor, poet, choral, bacchae, electra, characters, actors